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Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple.
by GaryBluto 4mo ago
Tangentially related, I wish more websites and blogs looked like this now. It's elegant and modern but simple.
- himata4113 4mo agoLacks centering, other than that I also found it enjoyable to look at.
- deadbabe 4mo agoThat’s a feature. It lets your thumb scroll comfortably in a larger blank area so the content is always in view for you. There is no reason for things to be centered, it does not aid readability.
- himata4113 4mo agoNot a feature on a 32inch ultrawide.
- deadbabe 4mo agoUse smaller window
- zamadatix 4mo agoUse phone horizontally. Much more practically, the best designs are the ones who don't demand of the user they be consumed in a single form across every scenario.
- deadbabe 4mo agoHorizontal phones haven’t been practical for a while. The weight balance is off and you are forced to use it two handed. You’ll look like a toddler.
- zamadatix 4mo agoJust as impractical as expecting the user to use tiny windows on a 32" ultrawide. It's a literal example of "telling the user they are holding it wrong" being the wrong approach to the problems.
- lunar_rover 4mo agoThis only works on large enough tablets. On phones the page isn't readable without a 3x zoom.
- christophilus 4mo agoTo me, the justified text makes it an effortful read.
- Gualdrapo 4mo agoYup, I hope every one agrees to leave proper justified text to LaTeX/ConTeXt/Typst/<your_favorite_typesetting_software>, doing such thing for HTML is still ugly and makes things harder to read
- nosioptar 4mo agoBreaks Firefox's reader mode. Looks like dog shit on mobile. I agree that this general style is good, just without some of this page's fuckups.
- kps 4mo agoChrome's too, but why? It's just plain HTML.
- chorizo 4mo agoSafari reader mode on mobile works great. But then again, this is a site where you should not need it.
- heftig 4mo agoMobile browsers are assuming you're looking at a legacy page optimized for desktops (widescreen) and have a relatively large virtual screen size by default. They expect you to manually zoom in as necessary. Adding this helps: <meta name="viewport" content="width=640, initial-scale=1"> This matches the max-width specified by the CSS. However, a smaller viewport width might be appropriate to increase the text size on mobile.
- voidUpdate 4mo agoI wish it took up more than 640 pixels on the left of my 1920 pixel screen. I changed the CSS of the body to be 900pt instead of 480, and it renders at 1200px wide, which looks a lot nicer to my eyes. Didn't bother trying to center it though, which would have improved it even more
- Imustaskforhelp 3mo agoI have come 11 days after your comment and I was looking for this exact thread within algolia until I suddenly remembered that it had sourceforge link and then remembered vim as well and I searched on algolia "vim" "sourceforge" to find it. So its so elegant and modern that I came back to the website by searching for it so deeply xD I do wish as voidUpdate has said that I wish for it to be a bit more centered but its overall great!